What’s new in Sandvox

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Version: 2.10.7, June 23, 2016

Bug Fixes

Version: 2.10.6, March 29, 2016

Remove "send from karelia.com" from contact form since this is now a required behavior. More info in forum post.

Show certain FTP connection errors in the window, not just log them

Version: 2.10.5, February 24, 2016

Don't show Debug menu

Version: 2.10.4, February 17, 2016

Use HTTPS to connect to our Sparkle update server to address security issue. Update to Sparkle 1.6.1 for HTTPS compatibility.

Addresses a crash when browsing a server during host setup

Clicking Host Setup "Verify" button immediately accepts any changes made to input fields without requiring user to tab out of them

Address an error condition when replacing a media placeholder with a movie at an external URL

Version: 2.10.3, October 14, 2015

New Features

Improved full-screen support on YouTube videos

Bug Fixes

Document would fail to open if the "Arial" font is not available

Fixed bug where publishing to Sandvox Hosting would try to delete old files and fail, retrying every time you published

Improved reliability when creating missing directories on an SFTP server

Addresses a crash which could happen when connecting to a remote server

Objects

Amazon List: Restored functionality to "enhanced" and "shuffle" layouts, and restored "Use product preview popups", to keep up with changes on Amazon's part. Some international Amazon stores may not show the product; we are investigating this issue and will update Sandvox as we find out more. In the meantime, the basic layouts should continue to work just fine.

Version: 2.10.2, August 23, 2015

Publishing to a Folder

Worked around a hang which could occur when publishing to a folder on OS X 10.7 Lion or later

file: URLs can be specified for the site URL

Improved workflow when publishing to a folder by default

The “Publish” command takes immediate effect, rather than confirming the location with you first. You can change location if needed by selecting “Publish to Folder” instead

At the end of publishing, the Share panel is presented again

Fixed an issue which happened if the usual target folder can not be found

Publishing to a Remote Server

Improved reliability of re-connecting to FTP and SFTP servers

Fixed a bug where some intermediate directories weren’t being created over SFTP if needed

Publishing in General

Fixed an issue which would occur in the rare circumstance of publishing a file to a location that Sandvox believes to currently be a folder

Fixed a crash when canceling publishing

Addressed a rare issue where a media file could be named with a space, rendering it incompatible with some servers

Objects

Amazon objects are a bit more tolerant of malformed associates IDs.

Contact Form specify their encoding consistently for better international support

Version: 2.10.1, April 15, 2015

Bug Fixes

Fixed: Choosing Setup Host and clicking "Done" would cause entire website to need to be republished

The act of exporting a site and the act of publishing onto the local computer via the Host Setup Assistant have been unified into a "Publish to Folder" menu item. The "Publish to this folder by default" checkbox allows repeated publication to that same folder.

Those Sandvox designs that use Google fonts will load them asynchronously, which means that these websites will load (though without Google fonts) from places like China that block them. Third-party designs will need updating to take advantage of this.

Version: 2.9.5, March 17, 2015

Bug Fixes

Fixes a recently-discovered security flaw in the library used to connect to SFTP servers (libssh2)

Version: 2.9.4, March 12, 2015

Publishing

Resolved an issue where graphical text wasn’t publishing for some sites

Improved compatibility with Microsoft WebDAV servers

Fixed a crash when browsing some WebDAV servers

Worked around an issue where directories weren’t being created during publishing to some SFTP servers

Markup

Design fixes

Better compatibility of page headers with modern versions of Internet Explorer

Other Bug Fixes

A crash when creating links

Handling of collections with invalid file names

Closing a document and choosing to revert changes would cause it to spring back open again

Plug-In Developers

Fixed API for generating a full-size image

Version: 2.9.3, December 16, 2014

Compatibility

Addresses an issue where some objects could disappear within Sandvox on OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Resolves an issue where composing a message to share a page on OS X 10.10 Yosemite would appear to have no link

Other Changes

Updates to help pages

Version: 2.9, September 23, 2014

Objects

Contact Forms now have the “Send from Karelia” option checked by default if it had not explicitly been turned off before. This is to help reduce the number of messages lost due to mistyped “from” addresses or aggressive spam filters on the receiving end. A few Sandvox users may want to turn this checkbox off if they are relying on the old behavior for any mail-processing rules or scripts. (Or, better yet, update those mail-processing rules or scripts.)

New object for playing videos hosted on Vimeo

Improves handling of images which have accidentally been set to have “auto” width or height

Corrects an issue where pasting or dragging pages to duplicate them could end up shrinking photos

Publishing

We’ve added support for additional publishing protocols:

FTP with Implicit SSL

FTP with TLS/SSL

WebDAV with HTTPS

The full suite of protocols is available during Host Setup. If you’ve previously chosen to publish to an FTP server, Sandvox will guess whether to use FTP or FTPS based on your previous preferences. If this guess is wrong, you just need to edit your Host Setup, selecting the correct protocol to use.

Sandvox is now stricter about certificate handling when connecting to a server using TLS/SSL (i.e. publishing using HTTPS or one of the FTPS protocols). Certificates must be deemed valid by your Mac, either because they’ve been signed by a recognized authority (this is the normal case), or your Keychain has been configured to make an exception for this particular certificate/server. If at all possible, we recommend hosting providers use a suitable certificate and upload settings. If not, third-party FTP clients such as Transmit can generally be used to generate a system-wide exemption for your particular setup.

SFTP and FTP connections are reused when possible for better performance

When stopping publishing, the currently uploading file is allowed to finish first. Clicking the Stop button for a second time forces the upload to stop immediately

Avoids the quirk where the publishing process of folders could appear to jump backwards and forwards for some time

Fixes a crash when SFTP authentication takes too long

Addresses an issue where the publish or export progress window would unnecessarily include an entry for the overall upload folder

The dock progress indicator for publishing is working again

Revamped sheet for browsing remote folders during host setup

Browser Compatibility

Allows IE 9 and above to play video and MP3 audio natively, not using Flash

Fix to video/audio flash detection script

Adds a margin below popup menus so that sub-menus taller than the content will not be cut off on Webkit browsers

Improves compatibility of favicon images with Google Chrome

Distribution & Licensing

Sandvox is now distributed as a .zip archive, not a disk image (.dmg). Consequently, the software license agreement is shown on first launch (instead of as part of mounting the disk image)

If launched from outside of the Applications folder, Sandvox offers to move itself to a more appropriate location